At Xconomy’s very successful Mobile Madness event a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by the vibrant mobile startup scene in Boston. Its not that mobile focused startups are new to Boston, but rather that the ecosystem “feels” vibrant at the moment. RunKeeper (FitnessKeeper) mobile fitness platform. Applications.

I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. It has become a bit of a orthodoxy among the consumer social startup crowd to do mobile first and web second. Building an audience on mobile is a b h.

'I am on the board of Sitrion , who just released their latest version of Sitrion ONE , which allows enterprises to deliver mobile solutions in one single day. little over a decade later, mobile is dominating much of the growth of the web. Every company we are involved in is working on a mobile app. What do you think?

I joined Qualcomm Ventures 5 years ago because I thought the newly released iPhone would herald in an era where the web met wireless – and what a 5 years it’s been… The first wave of companies, when I first started, were “mobile only” plays – they were remnants of the dumbphone age. Mobilewithout it.
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But mobile is growing like a weed. alluded to this in a post last week where I wished for an aggregated audience measurement service across mobile and web. There is a significant shift going on this year, much more significant than we saw last year, from web to mobile. Mobile does not reward feature richness. Yahoo!
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have just come from an excellent breakfast hosted by Qualcomm where we had half a dozen talks about the future for mobile. We heard about the potential for NFC, augmented reality, mobile commerce, and mobile operating systems, but the presentation that really caught my eye was about the growth in mobile malware. MobileMORE >>

My biggest takeaway is best explained by this slide: Across the whole world mobile data usage continues to grow and take share, yet in the developed world smart phone penetration is approaching saturation levels and growth in device sales has slowed. Mobile As always there’s lots of good stuff in there.
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Last week Techstars announced the new Techstars Mobility program, Driven by Detroit. Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit will run for three years with a new class of 10 startups each year. think Ted is awesome and it’s super exciting to have him join Techstars as the Managing Director of Techstars Mobility. Status quo?
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